Your Favorite Sad Song

[MrDeano89]

Kingdom hearts - sanctuary
metallica- nothing else matters
devotchka - how it ends
R.E.M - everybody hurts


have about a million others but cant think right now

 

[hotacidbath]

throw a curve ball here. metal fan announcing his ultimate sad song.

Bill Withers: Grandma's Hands

Cos he don't have Grandma anymore. If he get to heaven he'll look for, Grandma's Hands.
touching stuff.

I can't believe I didn't think of Grandma's Hands. Such a great song.

I've been listening to Pour It On, Dock by OCMS a lot lately so this is my favorite right now. Another very good one is the Paul Brady and the Forest Rangers cover of Gimme Shelter. I love the Rolling Stones original, but when this song played during the season finale of Sons of Anarchy, it just worked so perfect with everything that was going on and was a real tear jerker. Hurt (either Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash) also always really gets to me.

 

[Acier]

Anything off of Hospice by Te Antlers.


Also Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two Headed Boy Pt 2" makes me mopey.

 

[ModsDeleteThisAccountPlease]

I have a whole Playlist for this but its long, so I'll put it in a spoiler. Organized by Artist for your browsing ease!

Spoiler

A-Ha:
Summer Moved On

Abba:
S.O.S

Areosmith:
Dream On

Beatles:
Yesterday
Strawberry Fields Forever

Beyonce:
If I Were a Boy

Eminem
Stan (Ft. Dido)
Sing for the Moment
Like Toy Soldiers
Cleanin' Out my Closet
When I'm Gone

Fort Minor:
Where'd You Go (ft. Holly Brook)

The Fray:
How to Save a Life

Green Day:
21 Guns

Guns 'N' Roses:
Patience
Don't Cry (Original)
November Rain
Estranged

Howie Day:
Collide

Kelly Clarkson:
Breakaway
Because of You

Linkin Park:
With You
Crawling
Runaway
In The End
My December
Easier To Run
Numb
Leave Out All The Rest
Shadow Of The Day
Hand Held High
In Between
The Little Things Give You Away

Ozzy Osbourne:
See You On The Other Side

Pink Floyd:
Breathe
Time

Pussycat Dolls:
I Hate This Part

REM:
Everybody Hurts

Roxette:
Listen To Your Heart

Simple Plan:
Welcome To My Life

Smashing Pumpkins:
Today

Snow Patrol:
Chasing Cars

 

[Eerors]

[Don't judge me but] Anything by Dido!

Her voice is so sad :'(

 

[dalek sec]

Flogging Molly: The Worst Day Since Yesterday.

Battlestar Galactica: Kat's sacrifice, So much life, Grand old lady, The heart of the sun and An easterly view.

 

[TheBritish]

The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZhMk00tkOw

This was extra sad for me because when I first heard it someone I know was in hospital surviving on drugs alone. Not the point of the song, but it seemed to fit so well...

For general sadness, Tori Amos' version of I Don't Like Mondays

Other than that a lot of things that have already been mentioned. Queen are amazing at evoking emotions, Ain't No Sunshine, Sound of Silence and Fields of Gold (The Eva Cassidy version... has this been mentioned?)

Mad World is depressing, but not "sad" to me

 

[KP Shadow]

Mine would be

In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans

4AM Forever - Lostprophets

Dreaming with a Broken Heart - John Mayer

And, if it counts, the Lavender Town theme from the Pokemon games.

 

[Salty Weasel]

Honestly that one song from Half Life 2 called Radio is one of the most depressing things I have ever heard. It makes me feel like there is no hope. But for some reason I can't stop listening to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxLPnMrEvkM

Also a lot of the songs on In Utero from Nirvana. Especially Dumb and All apologies. Although those songs are a more happy type of sad if that makes sence. Also Something in the way also by Nirvana.

 

[Redlyr]

Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley

 

[HitsWithStyxx]

Alive by Pearl Jam. Not so much sad as it is melancholy sounding. It makes me feel real down, right until the awesome free-style guitar solo, which kicks ass. MAJOR ASSAGE!

Really? I think Black is a much more depressing song. There's alot of depressing Pearl Jam songs, something they have in common with...

Nutshell by Alice in Chains. The MTV Unplugged version has my eyes blurring up by the breakdown. :')

...except with Alice in Chains, it's tempered by the nihilism. Is it really sad if the subject just doesn't care anymore?

Comfortably Numb always gets me, especially the lines:

"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
The child has grown the dream is gone"

In a classical vein, Marche Slav by Tchaikovsky. He condensed a whole lot of Russian suffering into that piece, and that's before Communism.

Something I Can Never Have by NIN is good, because it sounds so empty and lonely. It's the best song about a person you loved and lost.

But I think Mad World tops them all. It's just so hauntingly beautiful.

I wouldn't say Alice in Chains are nihilistic; that implies that they have no emotional attachment to the content of the song. A lot of AIC's stuff is very meaningful, for example, No Excuses is about how Jerry and Layne used to fight a lot, but they always ended up forgiving each other, regardless of what they were fighting about. I'm not doing the whole "think before you talk" thing, just saying that I never really heard anything in AIC's music that made me think of it as nihilistic; there's just too much emotion poured into the songwriting for it to be that, though I can see your angle.

I will agree with you that Mad World is an exceptional song.

 

[blindthrall]

Alive by Pearl Jam. Not so much sad as it is melancholy sounding. It makes me feel real down, right until the awesome free-style guitar solo, which kicks ass. MAJOR ASSAGE!

Really? I think Black is a much more depressing song. There's alot of depressing Pearl Jam songs, something they have in common with...

Nutshell by Alice in Chains. The MTV Unplugged version has my eyes blurring up by the breakdown. :')

...except with Alice in Chains, it's tempered by the nihilism. Is it really sad if the subject just doesn't care anymore?

Comfortably Numb always gets me, especially the lines:

"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
The child has grown the dream is gone"

In a classical vein, Marche Slav by Tchaikovsky. He condensed a whole lot of Russian suffering into that piece, and that's before Communism.

Something I Can Never Have by NIN is good, because it sounds so empty and lonely. It's the best song about a person you loved and lost.

But I think Mad World tops them all. It's just so hauntingly beautiful.

I wouldn't say Alice in Chains are nihilistic; that implies that they have no emotional attachment to the content of the song. A lot of AIC's stuff is very meaningful, for example, No Excuses is about how Jerry and Layne used to fight a lot, but they always ended up forgiving each other, regardless of what they were fighting about. I'm not doing the whole "think before you talk" thing, just saying that I never really heard anything in AIC's music that made me think of it as nihilistic; there's just too much emotion poured into the songwriting for it to be that, though I can see your angle.

I will agree with you that Mad World is an exceptional song.

I see your point. Fatalistic would have been better word choice. I'm not sure it's tragedy when the subject has given up hope. It's sad, but not as sad as someone who is still trying.

OT: How about Fell on Black Days?

 

[HitsWithStyxx]

Alive by Pearl Jam. Not so much sad as it is melancholy sounding. It makes me feel real down, right until the awesome free-style guitar solo, which kicks ass. MAJOR ASSAGE!

Really? I think Black is a much more depressing song. There's alot of depressing Pearl Jam songs, something they have in common with...

Nutshell by Alice in Chains. The MTV Unplugged version has my eyes blurring up by the breakdown. :')

...except with Alice in Chains, it's tempered by the nihilism. Is it really sad if the subject just doesn't care anymore?

Comfortably Numb always gets me, especially the lines:

"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
The child has grown the dream is gone"

In a classical vein, Marche Slav by Tchaikovsky. He condensed a whole lot of Russian suffering into that piece, and that's before Communism.

Something I Can Never Have by NIN is good, because it sounds so empty and lonely. It's the best song about a person you loved and lost.

But I think Mad World tops them all. It's just so hauntingly beautiful.

I wouldn't say Alice in Chains are nihilistic; that implies that they have no emotional attachment to the content of the song. A lot of AIC's stuff is very meaningful, for example, No Excuses is about how Jerry and Layne used to fight a lot, but they always ended up forgiving each other, regardless of what they were fighting about. I'm not doing the whole "think before you talk" thing, just saying that I never really heard anything in AIC's music that made me think of it as nihilistic; there's just too much emotion poured into the songwriting for it to be that, though I can see your angle.

I will agree with you that Mad World is an exceptional song.

I see your point. Fatalistic would have been better word choice. I'm not sure it's tragedy when the subject has given up hope. It's sad, but not as sad as someone who is still trying.

OT: How about Fell on Black Days?

Better word choice, yes, but I still wouldn't say "fatalistic", because that implies that they don't cover anything other than their own mortality in their music. And although some songs do indeed relate heavily to this, I don't think that ALL of their stuff is like that, especially the acoustic EPs. I think I'd borrow a term from Shockolate and say that they have a sound that's very melancholy.

 

[blindthrall]

I just found a good one, the Moldau Symphony-

 

[nickachu]

Here you me - Jimmy.

 

[dark-amon]

Gary Jules with Mad World. Some people think it's an emo song, but I think it takes up the ethical dilemma of how the humans relation with others weaken in the modern world and how we become distant from each other.

 

[ArcWinter]

Audience of One by Rise Against.

I guess Swing Life Away could also apply, depending how you look at it.